Mediating The Fly: Posthuman Metamorphosis in the 1950s.

This article reports that the biological evolution, or natural metamorphosis, exploits random genetic mutations within the processes of both asexual and sexual reproduction. Put another way, the variations necessary to evolutionary processes are driven by the increment of noise within the channel of genetic transmission from one generation to the next. This is the literal biological ground of the cultural figure of bodily metamorphosis. Parents send their children composite genetic messages that always rearrange themselves in transit to their recipients, and children are inserted into a social system that refigures the mutability of natural reproduction in the medium of changing cultural transmissions.